The League Of Youth
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis 1876 (Auburn) – 1938 (Melbourne)
There was never a hint, when I was a boy,
That the joy of the wilds might bring man joy;
Never a thought that a wild thing slain
Might wake in the slayer pain for pain.
We were savages all, with the hunter's thrill
In the lure of the chase and the lust of the kill;
And the bud on the bough, and the bird in the nest
Were beautiful things to be possessed.
But a worthier thing comes now to the earth,
Since pity in minds of the young has birth.
'Tis the glorious gift, that wisdom brings,
Of knowing and loving all lovely things:
Of loving and sharing with all the boon
Of the glad free things that may teach us soon
The gift of living, as glad and free,
As bird and blossom in Arcady.
'Oh, youth is heedless,' the elders say,
'Youth is callous and cruel in play,'
Say they, forgetting that all youth heeds
Comes down through lauding of elders' deeds.
But the law of savage - of fang and claw
Gives what was in the end to a worthier law;
And man, emerging from ways uncouth,
Sees visions anew in the League of Youth.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AABBCCDD EEFFGGXD HHIIJJKK |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,001 |
Words | 204 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
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